Tag: women
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GISÈLE PELICOT: SHERO
**Trigger Warning** The following contains references to grave sexual violence crimes. Frenchwoman, Gisèle Pelicot is enduring what French Media is calling “Le Procès du Siècle”. (Trial of the Century). She opted for proceedings to take place in open court insisting, “it is not for me to have shame but them.” The terrible crimes committed against…
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8 of 54: EQUATORIAL GUINEA
In our usual literary “Tour D’Afrique” we now arrive in Equatorial Guinea. I could speak of the nation’s landscape, culture and arts. But I am a servant of the people and the people want to hear of Balthazar, the unofficial sex czar. The very married man was busy de-frauding the nation he forgot to keep…
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SHOWER ME WITH PRAISE
I hung out with the Rwandan aunties today. Dad was in town so they got to meet him. I was nervous they’d tell him about all the times I spoke back or rolled my eyes. I wasn’t nervous about them sharing any boy drama because (1) I tell dad about all my suitors so nothing…